dissenting

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Dissenting in Massachusetts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that from the court’s reasoning, “it follows that everything airborne, from Frisbees to flatulence, qualifies as an ‘air pollutant.’

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Dissenting alone, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court should not have intervened.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025

Dissenting from the decision not to rehear the case, Judge Diane P. Wood said prison officials may no more deprive inmates of exercise than they may starve or torture them.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2023

Dissenting from the 5-4 Lochner majority, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in 1905 that the court was improperly deriving legal doctrines from economic theory.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2022

Here are several Dissenting meeting-houses, and the town is the resort of many visitors during the summer season; upwards of 50,000 annually are said to remain for longer or shorter periods.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell